The Trout Gallery

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GORDON PARKS CROSSROADS September 5–October 18, 2008
The Trout Gallery is proud to host a retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Gordon Parks (1912–2006), one of the nation’s most important chroniclers of the twentieth century. Photographer, poet, novelist, composer, musician, and filmmaker, Parks spent a lifetime shattering barriers in the pursuit of truth, beauty, social justice, and artistic expression. Parks became the first black photographer to join the Farm Security Administration (FSA), shortly after which he made his signature image American Gothic. In 1949, he became the first black staff photographer at Life magazine, where he continued to work on assignment for the next quarter of the century. He documented the gang wars of Harlem and the nascent Black Muslim movement, worked in fashion and commercial as well as fine art photography. He helped found Essence magazine and directed the film Shaft. He received numerous awards including the Jackie Robinson Lifetime Achievement Award, the NAACP Hall of Fame Award, the National Medal of the Arts, as well as an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College. All photographs courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation and the Howard Greenberg Gallery. Organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. IMAGE: American Gothic, Gelatin silver print, 1942
Joyce Kozloff October 31 – January 10, 2009
In this selection of works by Joyce Kosloff, she considers relationships of power and global politics through the imagery of maps and cartography. Her paintings, some of which cover spherical surfaces and globes, often resemble maps from antiquity as well as from the age of exploration dotted with contemporary references to examine issues of territorial conquest, identity, and the topography of power. Although her works trace physical boundaries and recognizable geographic borders, such territorial references act as metaphors for people, culture, body, and mind. Kozloff has been active in the women artists’ movement since the 1970s, is a peace activist and is a member of the New York based collective Artists Against the War and a founding member of the Heresies publishing collective. Her awards include the Jules Guerin Fellowship and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She has works in the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, Yale University Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, among many others. She shows widely in the United States and Europe, most recently at the Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice. IMAGE: Targets, Acrylic on canvas with wood frame, 108 in. dia.